Arrows in full length measured without the nock?
Normally you measure the arrow from the nock (so, where the string is placed) to the end of the shaft. If you want to have a 29" arrow, the shaft itself has only about 28,5" cause the distance between the shaft and the nock has to be added.
But what if you order a bare shaft (which comes without a nock) at full length. If they say 31" does it mean that this shaft would be ca. 30,5" or do they actually have 31", so that my arrow would be 31" + ~0,5"?
What happens if a shaft has a nock attached from scratch? Are they measured from the bottom of the groove to the end of the shaft?
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From my experience the arrow shafts will be exactly the length as specified, at least with all the vendors I dealt with so far. (It might be safest to just ask them however!)
If you're putting together your own arrows from scratch, you're sort of expected to tinker around to a certain degree, and this might include shortening the shafts to your optimal length.
This is easy for wooden/aluminium shafts, and a bit trickier for carbon shafts. In the latter case however, it is likely that you'll be shooting recurve or compound bows anyway. On these bows the last bit of arrow length fine-tuning is generally done adjusting your clicker * rather than having millimeter-precise arrow lengths.
Just as a side note: If you're actually a good enough shot that these couple of mm in length really matter to you then hats off. Generally I'd say that there are plenty of more important factors when buying arrows, like correct weight, stiffness, balance, ...
*) Example of a clicker on a recurve bow:
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